2026.01.08
Multiple Origins Behind The Extreme Star Formation In “Monster Galaxies”
An international research team has conducted detailed observations of three “monster galaxies” in the early Universe using the ALMA and the JWST, revealing tha…
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2026.01.05
Giant Spiral Galaxy” Discovered 11.5 Billion Years Ago
A research team led by a researcher at Nagoya University has discovered that a “monster galaxy” in the early Universe, 11.5 billion years ago, was a huge, rapi…
2025.12.10
Observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud: Insights into Star Formation in Early-Universe-like Environments
In today’s Universe, stars like our Sun form within long, thread-like structures called filamentary molecular clouds. Yet, the conditions for star formation in…
2025.11.18
Astronomers Discover a Superheated Star Factory in the Early Universe:Hot Dust Indicates the Rapid Growth of the Early Galaxy
This news is based on the press release from Chalmers University of Technology.
Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown, extreme kind of…
2025.09.25
Winding Motion of Planet-Forming Spirals Captured on Video for the First Time
An international research team led by Tomohiro Yoshida, a graduate student at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI and the National Astronomi…
2025.08.08
The Universe’s Secret Harvest: ALMA Sheds Light on “the Cosmic Grapes”
Super high-resolution ALMA and JWST observations unveil unexpected substructure and underlying gas dynamics in a faint, infant galaxy, offering fresh clues to …
2025.08.05
Discovery of Protoplanetary Disk Caught in Explosion Driven by Stellar Jet
A research team led by Masataka Aizawa of Ibaraki University studied a protoplanetary disk around the young star WSB 52 and its surrounding structures using AL…
2025.06.24
New Super-resolution Imaging Reveals the First Step of Planet Formation after Star Birth
A research team led by Ayumu Shoshi of Kyushu University and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) revealed protoplanetary disks …
2025.05.22
A Fierce Storm in a Giant Barred Spiral Galaxy 11 Billion Years Ago
A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral galaxy in the early Universe with ALMA…
2025.03.10
Discovery of ‘Hot Gas’ near a Supermassive Black Hole 12.9 Billion Years Ago: New Possibilities for Finding Hidden Black Holes in the Early Universe
An international research team led by Professor Ken-ichi Tadaki of Hokkai-Gakuen University has made a groundbreaking discovery using the ALMA telescope. The t…
2025.02.06
Magnetic Field in Planet Formation has been Successfully Observed
Based on ALMA multi-band observations of dust polarization, the magnetic field structure in a protoplanetary disk has been measured for the first time. A resea…
2025.01.10
Unveiling the Properties of a Primeval Galaxy from 13.4 Billion Years Ago
An international team led by researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan succesfully detected the emission of several atomic transitions fr…
2024.12.24
A Baby Star in Action: B335 Offers a Natural Laboratory for Astrochemistry
Scientists have taken an unprecedented step forward in understanding the chemical processes occurring as new stars form, thanks to observations of the variable…
2024.12.13
ALMA Reveals the Birthplace of a Planetary System: Dust Accumulation to form a New Planet outside Just-Formed Planets
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has successfully observed a site of planet formation by detecting a high concentration of dust grains, …
2024.10.08
Space Oddity: Most Distant Rotating Disc Galaxy found
This article is a revised version. Please check the original press release by the European South Observatory here. This image shows the galaxy REBELS-25 as see…
2024.10.03
ALMA Detects Hallmark “Wiggle” of Gravitational Instability in Planet-Forming Disk
This article is based on the press release issued by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory on September 4, 2024. Please see https://public.nrao.edu/news/alm…
2024.08.30
Dancing Galaxies Make a Monster at the Cosmic Dawn
Observations to date have discovered a number of supermassive black holes with masses exceeding a billion times that of the Sun in the early Universe, when the…
2024.04.11
Twinkle Twinkle Baby Star, 'Sneezes' Tell us How You Are
Astronomers have discovered the remnants of powerful ‘sneezes’ expelling gas, dust, and electromagnetic energy around stars in the process of forming. The team…
2024.03.28
A Glimpse by Molecules : a Production Line Inside a Busy Star Factory in a Starburst Galaxy
An international research team led by Sergio Martín of the European Southern Observatory/Joint ALMA Observatory, Nanase Harada of the National Astronomical Obs…
2024.02.01
Gas on the Run :ALMA Spots the Shadow of a Molecular Outflow from a Quasar when the Universe was less than one Billion Years Old
Theoretical predictions have been confirmed with the discovery of an outflow of molecular gas from a quasar when the Universe was less than a billion years old.
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2026 1.13
Students Honored for Collaborative Research with ALMA Receiver Development Team
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Two students from the University of Electro-Communications (UEC) have received awards for their collaborative research …
2026 1.8
Multiple Origins Behind The Extreme Star Formation In “Monster Galaxies”
An international research team has conducted detailed observations of three “monster galaxies” in the early Universe us…
2026 1.6
Kenichi Tadaki Selected for Prestigious Research Grant for ALMA-Based Study
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Professor Kenichi Tadaki of Hokkai-Gakuen University has been selected for the 58th Research Grant (FY2025) in the Spac…
